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Message: <blockquote data-quote="catsclaw227" data-source="post: 4677299" data-attributes="member: 14197">I have a quick question for James:With the Pathfinder RPG coming out and the new APs and adventures to follow, obviously you can't hav NPCs with classes or prestige classes that aren't OGL.  But that's an awful lot, and the things that made your Dungeon APs great were the variety of NPC classes/prestige classes and the monsters from non SRD sources.Will all the NPCs and monsters in Pathfinder RPG adventures be restricted to the same base classes you have in the Pathfinder RPG hardback?And this leads to another question.  When you start (eventually) making splat books with classes and races, won't these make the older 3.5 library obsolete as well?  I assume you aren't stopping at the one book and thats it.So backward compatibility is just a temporary goal to satiate the current players until you reproduce the new classes and prestige classes and feats and new mechanics that you will eventually produce.  I mean, it just makes good business sense, but let's be honest about it.  Backward compatibility is not the goal here, it's really just a nice turn of phrase for a stop-gap until you make it yourself.I don't begrudge you this, it's a good idea for the business. And I don't question Paizo's business acumen, it's proven quite good so far. I love the style of your fluff and I like Golarian.  Man, I wish you would do a 4e line of adventures....</blockquote>